I'm not sure what there is to explain. It is weird mostly for the sake of being weird and though there is probably some deep meaning stuff happening that you could potentially get out of it, the weird jumping around and random dinosaur scenes aren't really confusing, just auteurish. The only plot point somebody might somehow miss is that Sean Penn is Brad Pitt's youngest son. Otherwise it is just a well acted and beautiful weird mess. Honestly I thought its circle of life message was kind of simplistic, kind of like the Love is All Around message from "Love, Actually" but with far less hilarious Bill Nighy.

I didn't love it, if that isn't clear; though I saw much of the beauty that the critical intelligentsia saw, I derived little pleasure or awe from it, and mostly just wanted to watch a drama with a coherent plot where Brad Pitt plays a bad dad married to Jessica Chastain. But I'm guessing that your mother probably understood everything in the movie that was meant to be understood; unless I'm missing something enormous myself I think a lot of the movie was essentially a mood poem.

I found it a weird movie. It seemed like it was driven by the thought experiment: what would happen if we made a movie where we left out all the most important plot points? I mean it's clear that things happen to these people, and eventually I figured out what happened and who it happened to, but even that's open to interpretation. Like I'm pretty sure I disagree with Gris about which son Sean Penn plays. Which, if you think about it, pretty much says right there why it's a weird movie.

Honestly I might just have forgotten. It was a long time ago.

Recently I saw someone on another message board commenting on some presumably bad romantic drama, and another poster said that it was still a better love story than Twilight.

I couldn't resist interjecting that Bluebeard was a better love story than Twilight.

Unfortunately Twilight is a better love story than Fifty Shades (only say unfortunately in that something actually is below Twilight).

Well, they're the same love story, so does that really count?

I love Todd VanDerWerff's write-up of the Fast & Furious franchise, complete with trailers, GIFs, infographics, and lines like "This is America reimagined as a fireball."

I'm seeing the new one tomorrow!!!

Catching up on a couple movies!

Big Hero 6 - LOVED! I'm so adopting "Woman up" as a phrase! Also will now start saying "bah da la da la da la" when I explode after a fist bump.

But I was seriously pissed off when they killed the brother. I had just gotten done saying "Of course the parents are dead. But at least the older brother is really cool!"

Jupiter Ascending - I enjoyed the movie, but I went in with really low expectations. I was expecting Jupiter to be a dithering idiot, and she was anything but. I wasn't bored, and the movie was beautiful! Sadly, most of the people I work with think the movie was stupid.

You won't need to stay all the way to the end of Age of Ultron: [link]

No, dude, you can't top Bucky in the Smithsonian.